So I decided to grab some extended strings of those DSOs which were doable and was pleasantly surprised when I stacked and processed NGC 7000 and the Dumbbell Nebula this more.
So I had little choice but to work with the DSOs within that area of the sky like NGC7000, Dumbbell Nebula, the Veil Nebula complex, eventually the Heart Nebula and a pretty pathetic attempt at imaging Pleiades which was still lower and outside the mostly clear zone. And that area of the sky conditions was changing hour by hour - contracting and expanding by about 10 degrees. There was clear evidence of high altitude smoke from the California/left coast forest fires though it was thin enough to allow me to image within a 25 to 30 degree radius of the zenith.
Bortle 3 to mostly 4 skies, with slightly below average transparency and a very weak Pickering 4 sky. Though the NOVAC Clear Sky Chart indicated clear skies (technically they were), with above average darkness, transparency and average seeing conditions, the sky at my Penfield/Middlefork River Forest Preserve location was really not that close to prognostication. Last night normally would have been a bomb with me given my propensity for single-frame grabs and the Stakker-lite process I'm trying to "perfect" (I'm using this term with some caveats here). As I've learned a bit more about processing stacked images with my antiquated ArcSoft Photostudio 6.0 image processing software, I'm starting to extend the number of lights and the minutes on target.
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